n.records created and originally kept by an individual known for the creation of works of writingHaller 1983, 69In scientific and literary papers notes that reflect the intellectual processes are sometimes as valuable for researchers as documents that present the final product.MacDermaid and Zuck 1983, 178In March of 1982, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council awarded a special grant of $75,000 to the Queen’s University Archives to produce a prototype computerized data base for the collection of Canadian literary papers held there. Included in the collection are the papers of Lorne Pierce, Al Purdy, Ralph Gustafson, Hugh Garner, Bliss Carman, and many other writers.Hodson 2004, 206The second, closely related, reason that literary papers carry heightened privacy concerns is that correspondence and other papers in literary archives usually deal with personal matters, while historical collections more often deal with historic events.McWhite 2006, 65The administrative portion includes a broad discussion of the heavy restrictions typically placed upon the papers of authors and celebrities followed by a more specific history of the University of North Carolina’s experience with the literary papers of Walker Percy and Shelby Foote.Carroll et al. 2011, 61These changes are discussed within the context of the manuscripts and computers that comprise Salman Rushdie’s personal literary “papers,” which are housed in Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL).
